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Also by Alexandra Rowland:

Yield Under Great Persuasion, October 2026
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Running Close to the Wind, June 2025
Trade Paperback
Running Close to the Wind, June 2024
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A Taste of Gold and Iron, June 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
A Taste of Gold and Iron, September 2022
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A Choir of Lies, September 2019
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A Conspiracy of Truths, November 2018
Hardcover

A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON
By: Alexandra Rowland

Tordotcom
June 2023
On Sale: May 30, 2023
512 pages
ISBN: 1250800390
EAN: 9781250800398
Kindle: B09C4FY8WW
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Other Editions
Hardcover (September 2022)

Fantasy

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, where a queer central romance unfolds in a fantasy world reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire.

Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court—the body-father of the queen's new child—in an altercation which results in his humiliation.

To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at best. In Arasht, where princes can touch-taste precious metals with their fingers and myth runs side by side with history, counterfeiting is heresy, and the conspiracy they discover could cripple the kingdom’s financial standing and bring about its ruin.